Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/08/11/10:45:51
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, S. L. wrote:
> Ralf,
> [...]
> > > > If you're asking whether you can replace the Explorer desktop,
> > > > taskbar, and window manager with Cygwin tools/programs, I'm not
> > > > sure if it's possible
> > >
> > > This is one of the goals of the KDE/cygwin project.
> [...]
>
> I think you and Igor gave a too complicated answer.
FWIW, there was not enough context in the question to give a simple
answer. I tried covering all the contexts I saw in that message. I
didn't even think of the Win9x connotations that you raise here.
Igor
> The short one is: yes, one can replace the shell=Explorer.exe from [boot] in
> system.ini with cygwin application. In fact, I tested it with my favourite
> shortcut line that launches rxvt.
> [snip]
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